Published: 2021/03/26
Last updated: 2022/09/26
All categories and entries are strictly in alphabetical order. Acceptance on this list does not necessarily imply 100% endorsement. You get the idea.
Blogs and Misc. Personal Sites
- Cidoku.net The personal site of Cidoku, notable for its original Flash animations and Comic Chat avatars, among other things.
- Gab A bastion of hope in a terrible social media hellscape.
- Koshka’s Kingdom An ever-growing site featuring a number of original designs and a dizzying array of topics, all in trademark 90s style. The Dragonball section is not to be missed.
Free and Open Source Software
- Arabesque A technical blog with an emphasis on shell scripting, Vim, and related things. Also features a number of interesting Vim-related koans.
- Bash Wiki Greycat’s Bash Wiki is the single most important site you’ll ever find on bash scripting. Pay special attention to the BashPitfalls page.
- Devuan A wonderfully boring systemd-free Debian clone. Development is a little slower than upstream, but they’re always plugging along.
- Dig Deeper I mention this site here mainly because some of the technical articles are very informative. I don’t agree with everything on this site, but it always makes for interesting reading.
- Free Software Foundation Many good essays on the importance of Free Software and resources to help you find and use such.
- Gentoo Install Gentoo. Seriously though, the level of control it offers is unrivalled anywhere else, and it’s systemd-free.
- Spyware Watchdog A large collection of articles dissecting various programs in regards to how much/little spyware they implement. It has a bit of overlap with Dig Deeper, but doesn’t go into the same tangents.
Non-free Software
Newer Games
Retro Games
- Babel: A Doom Mod A Doom mod targeting GZDoom that drastically improves enemy AI, modifies the weapons to make them more relatively balanced, and adds several small but welcome QoL features such as splitting pick-ups. I originally included it here in part for the novelty of having a Neocities domain (it has since moved to itch.io), but it is still a quality mod and well worth checking out.
- Biebersoft FreakZone (Archive) An old-school fansite for the glorious and absurd Biebersoft games. Unfortunately, it seems to have gone down at some point in 2021, so this link points to an archive instead.
- Caiman freeware games An old directory full of DOS and Windows freeware games. I spent many hours on sites just like this growing up.
- The Collection Chamber A blog with reviews and hand-crafted downloads of forgotten video games. GNU/Linux users may need to tweak them sometimes due to using case-sensitive filesystems.
- Doomworld A bunch of drama-lovers, to be sure, but it is still the number-one source for all things Doom.
- How to Continue Using Flash Player A thorough article showing how one can continue to use Adobe Flash for the sake of old games and animations.
- The Mushroom Kingdom One of the very first fan sites I ever found, and still an actively-updated cornucopia of resources on everything Mario. It hasn’t changed its themes or styling since I first found it all those years ago, with the sad exception of the removal of the “fan games” section, likely to avoid overzealous lawyers.
- OldUnreal Patches Modern patches for Unreal Tournament ’99 implementing improved platform support, new renderers, better stability, and other nice things.
- /vr/ - Etc A personal site of a retro game fan who enjoys collecting things from image boards. Contains some very nice recommendation charts.
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